What are Some Hemorrhoid Cures?

Hemorrhoids can be mildly irritating or exceedingly so.  There many treatments for hemorrhoid cures, everything from home remedies to surgery.  Hemorrhoids can be caused by straining while having a bowel movement, pregnancy, obesity, and heavy lifting.

The first line of treatment to try to cure hemorrhoids is home remedies.  Changing your diet and lifestyle may help.  Try to eat a high fiber diet and drink plenty of water.  Regular exercise has been shown to help hemorrhoids from developing or getting worse.  Warm Sitz baths feel wonderful and help cure hemorrhoids.  Ice packs or cold compresses applied to them, especially after a painful bowel movement, shrinks the blood vessels and tissues making them feel much better.

Your next line of defense is over-the-counter treatments.  These include fiber supplements, stool softeners and one of the many creams and ointments available.  There are many creams available with help ease pain as well as help heal the area.  Witch hazel applied with cotton balls also helps shrink the tissue. 

Your doctor can prescribe stronger creams and ointments to try.  If these do not work, several other procedures may.  There is rubber band ligation, which involves placing a rubber band around each hemorrhoid.  This cuts off the blood supply to them and they die and fall off.  There is laser treatment, which burns them off, and a method that freezes them off with liquid nitrogen is available.  If none of these give you lasting results or your hemorrhoids are just too large for them to be effective you may be referred to a surgeon.

Surgery to treat hemorrhoids is an option in more serious stages.  Hemorrhoidectomy has very few risks associated with it.  Those that have happened are excessive bleeding, infection risk and the risks associated with general anesthesia.  You will be given instructions to prepare for your surgery beforehand and these may include laxatives and/or enemas to prepare the anus and rectum.  Healing is usually complete in about two weeks and you can go back to you normal activities.  Remember after the surgery to make some life style changes like increased fiber in your diet.